Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-16
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81 OLD TORY.
Mans Per1idy and Woman's Confidence
Betrayed. Ending in Suicide.

Mans Peridy and Woman's Confidence
Betrayed. Ending in Suicide.
HELENA, April 13.-This morning, about
10 O'Clock, Mrs. Wilson, the proprietress of
a small restaurant on Broadway, near the
Merchants Hotel, was called to the room
of one of her female domestics-Miss Lydia
Dugan-where she found that young lady
in commissions. After hurri,dly doing
j! what she could to relieve her sufferings
Mrs. Wilson hastily summoned DR.. Kel-
logg. To the doctor the girl confessed that
she had taken poison-one-eighth of an
ounce OF strychnine-with suicidal intent.
The poison had been taken quite early in
the morning, and the doctor soon found
that her life
COULD NOT BE sAvED
and that the most he could hope to do was
to make her last moments as painless as
possible. Spasm succeeded spasm until
about noon, when death ensued. From
broken sentences uttered by the dying girl
and the story related by Mrs. Wilson, the
following facts in connection with the case
were brought to light: Miss Dugan was en-.
played last summer at one of the hotels in
National Park and after the season closed
came to Helena and sought and obtained
employment in Mrs. Wilson's restaurant.
She was bright and cheerful. and is believed
to have been a good girl until in an evil
hour some time last January she met and
became acquainted with a barkeeper named
Lon Tindall, who boarded at the restaur.
ant. Out OF this acquaintance there soon
sprang an intimacy which brought ruin
and death in it's brain. In February the
young lady
VENT TO LIVE WITH TINDAL
who, she claimed, had promised to marry
her after Lent. and who desired in the
meantime to reduce their living expenses
by having her come and live with him as
his wife. In a few weeks she detected him
in several faithless acts, upon which she
determined to leave him. She accordingly |
started for her home in Minneapolis, where |
she has several respectable relatives. The
great washout at Mandan defeated this |
purpose and she returned TO Helena, where,
by the intercessie n OF friends, she was re-
instated IN her former position at Mrs.
Wilson's. Her behavior both before and
after the Tindall escapade
HAS BEEN EXCELLENT
and her friends began to hope that the rude
lesson she had learned had revealed to |
her the error of her ways. and that she had
cast behind all thoughts of her deceptive
lover. The sequel. however, indicates that
she could not forget him. During her
death struggles she piteously called for him
and begged the doctor to save her life that
she might again behold him. Although he
was sent for several times. Tindall did not
her bedside until after it was too
Rate i DO Tectsn;sr3eby iss;iim Misc !
was a plea ut appearing brunette.
below the medium height, and was
about % years old. An inquest was held
afternoon and a verdict of death by
poison administered by her own hand was
rendered. Much indignation is expressed
on all sides for the perfidy of Tindall an,
his employer has discharged him. He will
seek pastures new.